Hemet Global Medical Center registered nurses successfully prevented the planned Oct. 31, 2024 closure of the hospital’s obstetrics department. Nurses had previously warned that the hospital’s remaining staff would have neither the capacity nor the specialized training to adequately care for patients coming in for perinatal services.

Health care workers at San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in San Gabriel, California, and Whittier Hospital Medical Center in Whittier, California, voted overwhelmingly in favor of ratifying a new four-year contract on October 29 and 30, winning protections to improve patient safety and staff retention.

Registered nurses who work at HCA’s Good Samaritan Hospital, in San Jose, Calif., will hold a rally on Wednesday, Oct. 30 to protest management’s failure to address chronic short-staffing and lack of meal and break relief.

Registered nurses at Alameda and San Leandro Hospitals in the East Bay will hold an informational picket at San Leandro Hospital on Oct. 30, 2024, to highlight a number of significant patient safety concerns that Alameda Health Systems (AHS) has failed to meaningfully address during contract bargaining.

Nurses at Dignity Health St. Bernardine Medical Center in San Bernardino, California will hold an informational picket on Tuesday, October 29 to protest management’s refusal to address chronic understaffing impacting patient safety. The lack of investment in staffing from CommonSpirit Health, the owners and operators of St. Bernardine Medical Center, is leading to high turnover rates in a hospital that already suffered from inadequate staffing during the Covid-19 pandemic.

At a joint field hearing on Thursday, October 24 — hosted by the Department of Labor and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Okemos, Michigan — registered nurses with Michigan Nurses Association/National Nurses United joined other workers, advocates, and elected officials to discuss challenges facing workers.

RNs at University Medical Center (UMC) in New Orleans, La., are striking today, Oct. 25, with plans to hold a 9 a.m. rally on their strike line. Tomorrow, nurses will hold a return-to-work march to demonstrate their readiness to get back to patient care following their strike.

Nurses are moving forward with their planned strike and will host a sign-making party the night before in anticipation.

Registered nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent, Maine, picketed outside their hospital today, calling on management to bargain in good faith. The nurses, who are represented by Maine State Nurses Association, also announced that they are filing an unfair labor practice charge against their employer.

Registered nurses at 17 hospitals managed by HCA have voted in favor of ratifying new three-year contracts in recent weeks, concluding a massive 2024 bargaining effort by nurses, and including measures to improve patient care, patient safety, nurse retention, and working conditions at their hospitals.